Job description
SEND Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship - Princes Primary School
Princes Primary School
Liverpool (L8 1YQ) Selborne Street, Liverpool, L8 1YQ
Salary: £8 per hour
Training course: Teaching assistant Level 3 SEND - 16 month duration
Hours: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30am-4:30pm. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 8:30am-3:30pm.
(34 hours a week)
Start date: Friday 26 June 2026
Positions available: 3
Summary
You will work towards completing a level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship.
Applicants must have experience and a keen interest in working with SEND children as you will provide support for learning activities across all areas of the national curriculum.
As an apprentice, you'll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You'll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you'll do at work
- To provide support for learning activities across all areas of the national curriculum and to provide feedback to the teacher on pupil progress with objectives and tasks.
- To assist with the timely preparation of resources, activities and the teaching environment, ensuring pupil safety. This may include preparing materials to meet individual pupil's needs.
- To clear up after activities, ensuring displays are kept safe and tidy.
- To assist in the development of Individual Education Plans and to help pupils advance towards outcomes on the EHCP and to provide feedback on progress.
- To assist in implementing and reviewing agreed programmes of work and highlight any concerns to the classroom teacher.
- To implement agreed behaviour management strategies to promote positive behaviour.
- To support therapists and pupils before, during and following therapy sessions and to assist with therapies as required.
- To provide opportunities for pupils to experience a variety of play environments that stimulate them and provide opportunities for risk, challenge and personal growth.
- To support pupils to participate as inclusively as possible in all activities.
- To help pupils manage their own feelings and relationships with others.
- To provide support to pupils' general welfare, including emergency First Aid, feeding, toileting and changing their clothes as instructed to ensure they are clean, tidy and comfortable.
- To be familiar with pupils' care plans and provide care, encouragement and maintain dignity.
- To assist with monitoring of physical wellbeing, including pupils' eating habits, to support the development of pupils' independence.
- To support pupils' emotional wellbeing, self-reliance, self-esteem and resilience.
- To assist in intimate care as required.
- To assist in the administration of medication to pupils as required and in accordance with their Care Plan and legal guidelines.
- To organise and supervise off-site activities and maintain the health and safety of pupils when outside the school setting.
- To assist in the supervision of pupils during break and lunchtimes and in the use of school transport.
- To provide support for communication and interaction needs, including facilitating communication for pupils who use augmentative or alternative means of communication.
- To support pupils and their families for whom English is an additional language (EAL).
- To establish and maintain effective communication with parents, carers and families about the care and education of their children through Class Dojo, Xpress, review meetings and phone calls.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
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Extra information
- Status
- Open
- Education Level
- Secondary School
- Location
- Liverpool
- Type of Contract
- Full Time Jobs
- Salary indication
- £8.00 Per Hour
- Published at
- 29-08-2026
- Profession type
- Teaching / Instructors / Guides
- Full UK/EU driving license preferred
- No
- Car Preferred
- No
- Must be eligible to work in the EU
- No
- Cover Letter Required
- No
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